CO129-554-4 Companies Amendment Ordinance 1935 7-1-1935 - 17-12-1935 — Page 45

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(16/50/1934)

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Comm.Couns.

Sub-Legn.

Crown Advocate Hongkong.

Foreign Office.

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BRITISH LEGATION. PEKING.

11th October, 1934.

Dear Brenan,

I have been asked by Kent of the British American

Tobacco Company what my attitude would be towards a formal

application which his company proposes to make through you as

Registrar, on behalf of two companies (the Yee Tsoong Tobacco

Co., Ltd., and the Yee Tsoong Tobacco Distributors, Ltd.) to be

incorporated in Shanghai to undertake business now done by the

British Cigarette Company and the British American Tobacco

Company, for licenses under Section 93 (2) of the Companies

Ordinance, 1932, exempting them from prefixing the characters

to their Chinese name in notices, advertisements,

official publications, bills of parcels, invoices, receipts,

trade catalogues, trade circulars, show cards, and business

letters, but not in contract deeds, bills of exchange, promissory

notes, endorsement s, cheques, orders for money or goods, or

letters of credit. Kent does not know whether they also wish

to omit the characters from the Chinese name, if any,

exhibited at the companies' offices or which may be used in

their seals. Such partial exemption only is to be applied

for because the company are under the impression that the

provisions of Section 93 (2) were inserted so that anyone

dealing with a China Company would have notice of its

Sir John F. Brenan, K. C.M.G.,

His Majesty's Consul-General,

SHANGHAI.

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